Centre for European Studies
European Studies
Handbook
2015–2016
CONTENTS
1. General Information
(i)
European Studies
(ii)
This Handbook
(iii)
The European Studies Office
(iv)
Teaching Staff
2. Regulations and Guidelines
(i)
Assessment and Examinations
(ii)
Marking Scale
(iii)
Plagiarism
(iv)
Essay Submission
(v)
Essay-writing Guidelines
(vi)
Attendance and Non-satisfactory Performance
3. Course Structure
(i)
Junior Freshman Year
(ii)
Senior Freshman Year
(iii)
Scholarship Examination
(iv)
Junior Sophister Year
(v)
Senior Sophister Year
4. Essay Cover Sheets
Junior Freshman Year
Senior Freshman Year
Senior Sophister Year
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1. GENERAL INFORMATION
(i)
European Studies
The objective of your European Studies programme is to achieve a high degree of
linguistic competence, a firm intellectual grasp of several academic disciplines, and a
detailed understanding of the European past and of contemporary Europe. In your
European Studies programme, you will study two languages (French, German,
Italian, Polish, Russian or Spanish). You also study the history of ideas and the
evolution of European thought. You also study the European past and present
through the disciplines of History, Political Science, Sociology and Economics. Your
third year is spent at a university in the country of your choice of major language.
(ii)
This Handbook
This Handbook provides information about the European Studies office, teaching
staff, assessment, and about the academic programme for the first (Junior
Freshman), second (Senior Freshman) and fourth (Senior Sophister) years. The Year
Abroad Handbook enables students to plan the third (Junior Sophister) year abroad.
It is made available to Senior Freshman students at the end of Michaelmas Term.
(iii)
The European Studies Office
The European Studies office is 3037 on the first floor of the Arts Building (tel:
8961808). The European Studies office is normally open during term 10am-12pm
and 2pm-4pm on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. The Director of European
Studies is Graeme Murdock ([email protected]). The Executive Officer in European
Studies is Susan Migunda-Greene ([email protected]). For information about the
Centre for European Studies see www.tcd.ie/European_Studies/.
E-mail is the main method used for contact between the European Studies office and
students. Please note that you should only use your TCD e-mail address when
contacting the European Studies office or any staff.
(iv)
Teaching Staff in European Studies
Staff who teach on the European Studies programme are located in three Schools:
the School of Histories and Humanities, the School of Languages, Literatures and
Cultural Studies, and the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy. Further
information about the contact details and research interests of staff involved in
European Studies is available through departmental web-pages: (Economics
www.tcd.ie/Economics/; French www.tcd.ie/French; Germanic Studies
www.tcd.ie/Germanic_Studies/; Hispanic Studies www.tcd.ie/Hispanic_Studies/;
History www.tcd.ie/history/; Italian www.tcd.ie/Italian/; Political Science:
www.tcd.ie/Political_Science/; Near and Middle Eastern Studies www.tcd.ie/nmes;
Russian and Slavonic Studies www.tcd.ie/Russian; Sociology www.tcd.ie/sociology/).
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2. REGULATIONS AND GUIDELINES
Please note that it is the responsibility of students to read and take note of
regulations about your programme and about individual modules. Alongside the
information provided in this handbook, students should read carefully information
provided by tutors on individual modules. You should also consult the handbooks of
the relevant department (e.g. History, Italian) where appropriate for important
information about assessment deadlines, how to submit written work, marking
criteria, and other regulations. If you are in any doubt about how these regulations
affect you, contact your module tutor, College tutor, relevant department office, or
the European Studies office for guidance. Please also note that the University
Calendar (www.tcd.ie/calendar/) is definitive on all regulations.
(i)
Assessment and Examinations
There are varied modes of assessment in different modules in your programme.
Please consult information provided by module tutors to understand precisely what
is required of you in assessed exercises and in examinations. Please also note that it
is the responsibility of each student to establish the time and date of examinations
and be aware of examination regulations by consulting the College Examination
Office website. www.tcd.ie/academicregistry/exams/
Each year at Trinity you must take modules with a total value of 60 credits (ECTS). To
progress each year in College you need to secure an overall mark of 40% and to
obtain 60 credits, either by passing all modules (and in some cases also by passing
required elements within modules), or by compensation. To pass by compensation
you must either pass outright modules totaling 55 credits and achieve a minimum
mark of 30 per cent in the failed module, or pass outright modules totaling 50 credits
and achieve a minimum mark of 35 per cent in any failed module(s). The designation
of certain modules, or module components, as non-compensatable and/or the credit
value of modules may reduce the level of compensation permitted in any year.
Students, in the Junior or Senior Freshman year, who do not pass at the annual
examination session, either outright or by compensation, must complete
supplemental assessments in all modules in which they did not pass (and pass any
non-compensatable elements of modules) by taking such assessment components,
as required, during the supplemental examination period.
Students must pass their third year abroad. Details about this are set out in the Year
Abroad Handbook.
The final degree examination marks (Moderatorship) are decided solely by
assessment and examination in the Senior Sophister year. Candidates must satisfy
the examiners in the major language component in order to pass the moderatorship
examination. In calculating the moderatorship result all modules are weighted
according to their credit values. There are no supplemental examinations in the
Senior Sophister year.
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(ii)
Marking Scheme and Marking Criteria
The marking scheme used is based on the following grade descriptors: I = 70 -100;
II.1 = 60 - 69 marks; II.2= 50 - 59 marks; III= 40 - 49 marks; F.1= 30 – 39 marks; F.2= 0
- 29 marks. In cases of failure to submit an assessed work component, 0% is
awarded.
Students should consult module and relevant departmental handbooks for specific
criteria relating to each of these grades. Please also see the essay-writing guidelines
below.
(iii)
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the act of presenting the work of others as one’s own work, without
acknowledgement. As such, it is considered as academically fraudulent, and subject
to the disciplinary procedures of the University. Plagiarism can arise from deliberate
actions and/ or through careless thinking and methodology. The offence lies not in
the attitude or intention of the author, but in the action and in its consequences.
Please note that it is the responsibility of the author of any work to ensure that they
do not commit plagiarism. Students must therefore think carefully about their
practices of essay-writing, translation, citation, and note-taking. In the event of any
uncertainty students should seek advice ahead of submitting any work for
assessment.
All students are required to read and take note of the regulations on plagiarism in
the College Calendar www.tcd.ie/calendar. (Calendar Part II, General Regulations,
Academic Progress, Paragraphs 82 and following).
For important information about this subject students are also required to consult
http://tcd-ie.libguides.com/plagiarism
All students must complete the online tutorial on avoiding plagiarism, ‘Ready,
Steady, Write’, located at http://tcd-ie.libguides.com/plagiarism/ready-steady-write
(iv)
Essay submissions
Every Junior Freshman, Senior Freshman and Senior Sophister essay must be
accompanied by the appropriate coversheet which should be downloaded from the
European Studies web pages. The essay and coversheet should be delivered in hard
copy to Room 3037 by 11.00 a.m. on the specified date. In addition, a copy of all Junior
freshman, Senior freshman & Senior sophister essays must be sent electronically to
the corresponding emails below:
Junior Freshman- [email protected]
Senior Freshman- [email protected]
Senior Sophister- [email protected]
(v)
Essay-writing guidelines
European Studies students have to adapt their writing skills to different disciplines.
These guidelines on essay-writing should be read in conjunction with specific advice
offered by module tutors in different disciplines.
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An essay should provide a structured analysis of evidence in order to answer a
specific question or set of interlocking questions. Essays should not merely provide
information about a topic. You should therefore prepare to write by reading books
and articles from reading lists provided by your module tutor. These texts should be
directly related to the subject under discussion. You are not reading merely to
accumulate information but to understand arguments about how to interpret
processes, ideas, texts and events. Before writing, you should read carefully through
your notes and devise a structure for your writing around relevant arguments. Essays
should be structured around points of analysis, not structured around blocks of
information. An essay which simply narrates will never receive high marks no matter
how well written and presented. In assessing essays, markers take account of
attributes such as quality of analysis, depth and range of understanding of relevant
issues, accuracy, structure, expression, presentation and originality of thought. The
mark represents a composite evaluation of these factors. An interesting,
provocative, but poorly-informed piece of writing might then receive the same grade
as one which is clearly presented but reliant on repetition of basic narrative
information.
The introduction is a vital element of a successful essay. It should define how the
author intends to treat and analyse the question asked. Any terms or concepts in the
title requiring definition should be considered in the introduction. The main part of
an essay should consist of several main points, which deal with individual aspects of
the question posed and lead up to an answer to the question. A clear structure will
ensure that the argument is coherent and easy to follow. The conclusion should
summarise the argument and supply an answer to the exact question posed in the
introduction.
Paragraphs should be limited to less than a typed page and develop a single point.
Single sentence paragraphs should be avoided. Think carefully about your style of
writing to deliver clear, accurate and sophisticated ideas. The first person should be
sparingly used. Elisions, contractions, as well as slang, jargon, colloquial expressions,
and an excessive use of metaphors should be avoided. A frequent error of grammar
is around the use of ‘its’ (a possessive pronoun). ‘It’s’ (a contraction of it is) cannot
be used in its place. On dates, you should write the 1850s (as a plural) not the
1850’s. When you use ‘twentieth century’ as a noun no hyphen is needed, but as an
adjective a hyphen is required (‘twentieth-century Ireland’). You are taking a
programme of study involving language learning. Please take care to spell place
names, personal names and concepts accurately. Read your work carefully before
submitting it. Some people find it helpful to read their work aloud to themselves to
check whether sentences make sense or are too long and confusing.
Every essay must contain a bibliography, at the end of the essay, listing works
consulted in alphabetical order of the author’s last name. Only works actually
consulted should be listed. There are different methods of listing publications- the
crucial thing is to be consistent and ensure that sufficient information is supplied to
allow the reader to trace the publication used.
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All direct quotations, as well as the ideas or opinions of others, must be referenced.
Indirect quotations must be extensively reworded, reordered and their contents
analysed. This is important not only to demonstrate quality of analysis but in order
to avoid plagiarism. As a general rule, any information taken from a book or article
must be sourced. However, it is not necessary to source general information or wellknown facts which are common knowledge or can be easily verified. References
should be inserted as consecutively numbered footnotes or endnotes after the
relevant text passage. References should be consistent in style and contain precise
page references.
(vi)
Attendance and Non-satisfactory Performance
In some modules and departments students must satisfy an attendance
requirement. In some modules and departments students must complete nonexamined written work. Students are responsible for ensuring that they understand
and meet the criteria required in all modules they study. Please consult your module
tutor if you are uncertain about what is expected. If a student is returned as “nonsatisfactory” by one or more than one department in one semester or in consecutive
semesters, the Director of European Studies will call the student for interview in
order that he/she may explain the circumstances of the non-satisfactory
performance. Students who are returned as non-satisfactory in more than one
semester or by more than one department may be deemed not entitled to credit for
the year.
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3. COURSE STRUCTURE
There is a common structure for Junior Freshman students involving the study of two
languages equally, alongside core modules in History, the History of Ideas, and Social
Sciences. In the Senior Freshman year all students continue to study two languages
equally, take core modules, and select a further module in History, Economics,
Sociology or Political Science. Senior Freshman students choose the language in
which they wish to major (and hence the country where they will spend their third
year) at the end of Michaelmas term. In the Senior Sophister year all students study
two languages (one major, one minor), study a core European Studies module, and
take other modules from a list of available options. Students are encouraged to
choose to write a Dissertation during their Senior Sophister year.
(i) Junior Freshman Year
In their Junior Freshman year students take:
(i)
Two languages from French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian and Spanish.
No student may take more than one language as a beginner.
(ii)
‘Europe 1500-1800: Power and Culture’ (HI1220)
(iii)
‘Introduction to Social Science’ (EU1002)
(iv)
‘Introduction to the History of Ideas’ (EU1003)
(ii) Senior Freshman Year
In their Senior Freshman year, students take:
(i)
The two languages studied in the Junior Freshman year are continued
throughout the Senior Freshman year. By the end of the first semester,
students will be asked to designate one of the two languages as their
major language. This determines the country to which they will go in the
Junior Sophister year and the principal language in which they will be
examined at Moderatorship.
(ii)
‘Europe since 1914: Cataclysm and Decline’ (HI2119)
(iii)
‘The making of modernity, 1750-1820’ (EU2001)
(iv)
One of the following modules:
(a) ‘European societies’ (SO2330) (not available this year)
(b) SO2310 Introduction to Social Research
(c) SO2343 Gender, Work and Family
(d) SO2350 Power, State and Social Movements
(e) ‘Imperialism to Globalism: Europe and the World, 1860-1970’ (HI2133)
(f) ‘Comparative politics’ (PO2650)
(g) ‘Intermediate economics’ (EC2010)
(Students who wish to take this module must seek permission from the
Head of Economics before the end of the Hilary term of their Junior
Freshman year, before declaring their Senior Freshman module choice)
(h) ‘International relations’ (PO2640)
NB: In order to take any Political Science modules in the Senior Sophister
year, students must pass one of the Senior Freshman modules offered in
that subject area with a minimum mark of 40. In addition, students
intending to take the international relations module in the Senior
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Sophister year must pass the Senior Freshman international relations
module with a minimum mark of 40.
(iii) Scholarship Examination
The objective of the Scholarship examination is to identify outstanding academic
potential in the complementary disciplines which make up the European Studies
programme. The Scholarship examination in European Studies includes material
covered during the two semesters of the Junior Freshman year and the first
semester of the Senior Freshman year. It consists of one General Paper in European
Studies, two language (French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian and Spanish)
competence papers (including a Viva voce examination) and one additional paper in
this year from the list as follows (Europe 1500-1700; Europe since 1914; Economics
Paper 1; Political Science Paper 1; Political Science Paper 2; Sociology Paper 2). The
two language papers combined carry 1/3 of the overall marks. The General Paper
and remaining paper each carries 1/3 of the overall marks.
(iv) Junior Sophister Year
The Junior Sophister year abroad is a compulsory element of the European Studies
programme. A separate Year Abroad Handbook is produced to cover the Junior
Sophister year and to help Senior Freshmen choose their continental university and
organize their year abroad. Modules are normally undertaken in the major language
from a prescribed range of options at the exchange university. Students must comply
with the assessment requirement sat at the foreign university to the satisfaction of
the European Studies examination board.
Marks derived from work assessed at the exchange university during the Junior
Sophister year abroad enable the student to progress to their Senior Sophister year.
Students should obtain at least 45 ECTS or equivalent during their year abroad, and
should ensure they have a margin for error in the number of courses specified on
their learning agreement. If this standard of 45 ECTS is not achieved they must
repeat examinations in the supplementary sessions, as determined by their host
University. If they fail, they have to repeat the Junior Sophister year in Trinity, paying
full fees.
It is recommended that students take major and minor language modules while
studying abroad, but the credits obtained for these modules will not count towards
their end of year results. Students should remember that they will be examined in
their minor language in the Moderatorship examination (receptive skills only) and
consequently should ensure that they maintain their competence in it during the
third year.
Non-EU Junior Sophister students should confirm with the Centre for European
Studies that College will reimburse the student for tuition fees incurred while in the
host University. Currently, Non-EU students are not entitled to a SOCRATES grant as
they are not EU nationals. Students should bear in mind that although normally no
tuition fees are payable to universities in continental Europe (with the exception of
Russia), financing the year abroad may be more onerous than in the case of a normal
year’s study.
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(V)
Senior Sophister Year
All Senior Sophister students are required to take:
(i)
a Major language.
(ii)
a Minor language.
(iii)
‘Modernity and Society: Ideas and Culture in Europe since 1850’
(EU4002).
(iv)
One module from those listed under ‘List 1’, or two modules from
those listed under ‘List 2’. With the approval of the Director, one of
the modules in ‘List 2’ may be replaced by a dissertation (EU4001) on
a subject of independent study of 7,000-10,000 words.
List 1
(Year-long modules)
 HI3400 The Vikings c. 790-1100
 HI3439 The Archaeology of Medieval Warfare 1000-1300
 HI3436 Europe Reformed 1540 – 1600
 HI3427 The French Revolution, 1789 – 1799
 HI4398 Weimar Germany: Politics, Culture and Society
List 2
(Year-long modules unless stated otherwise. Please consult module descriptions for
any requirement of particular linguistic competence.)
 FR4048 French Cinema: Perspectives
 FR4049 La Belle Époque et le Surréalisme
 FR4043 Language and Society in the French-speaking world: status, diversity
and function
 GR4040 Kulturwissenschaft
 GR4053 Kunst nach Auschwitz
 GR4 Künstliche Menschen in der Literatur
 HI4343 Napoleon’s Empire: War Culture and Society in France and Europe, 1799-1815
(Michaelmas Term)
 HI4331 The Crusades, c.1095-1204 (Hilary Term)
 HI4313 Romance before Romanticism: Life, Love and Death in Ancien Régime and
Revolutionary France
 HI4303 Renaissance Florence, c.1348-1527
 HI4324 Society and the Sacred in France, 1685-1815
 HI4338 Medieval Globetrotters: Exploration and World Conquest in the Age
of the Black Death
 HI4339 Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe
 IT3023/3041 Italian Society, Contexts, Texts (Michaelmas Term) 5 ECTS AND
IT4017 Cultural Configurations: Italian Science Fiction (Hilary Term) 5 ECTS.*
 NM4003 Holocaust Representation in Film and Literature
 NM4004 Islam and Gender
 PO3670 Democracy and Development
 PO4701 Contemporary International Relations. The prerequisite for PO4701
Contemporary International Relations is PO2640 International Relations.
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RU4070 Stalinism and Society in Eastern Europe
S04230 Economic Sociology of Europe
SP4 The Myths of Time: Spain 1930-1945 (one semester)
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Centre for European Studies - Junior Freshman
Essay Submission Sheet
Please complete this form in full every time you submit assessed work to the
European Studies Office (Room 3037). No work will be accepted without this
submission sheet. All assessed work for EU-coded modules must also be
submitted electronically to [email protected]
Surname
Year
First Name
_________________
_______
___________________________
Student Number
E-mail
______________
_________________
Module Code/ Module Name
__________________________________________________________________
Declaration
I have read and I understand the plagiarism provisions in the General Regulations
of the University Calendar for the current year, found at
http://www.tcd.ie/calendar.
I have also completed the Online Tutorial on avoiding plagiarism ‘Ready Steady
Write’, located at http://tcd-ie.libguides.com/plagiarism/ready-steady-write.
Signed
Date
_________________________________________
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Centre for European Studies - Senior Freshman
Essay Submission Sheet
Please complete this form in full every time you submit assessed work to the
European Studies Office (Room 3037). No work will be accepted without this
submission sheet. All assessed work for EU-coded modules must also be
submitted electronically to [email protected]
Surname
Year
First Name
_________________
_______
___________________________
Student Number
E-mail
______________
_________________
Module Code/ Module Name
__________________________________________________________________
Declaration
I have read and I understand the plagiarism provisions in the General Regulations
of the University Calendar for the current year, found at
http://www.tcd.ie/calendar.
I have also completed the Online Tutorial on avoiding plagiarism ‘Ready Steady
Write’, located at http://tcd-ie.libguides.com/plagiarism/ready-steady-write.
Signed
Date
_________________________________________
__________
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Centre for European Studies - Senior Sophister
Essay Submission Sheet
Please complete this form in full every time you submit assessed work to the
European Studies Office (Room 3037). No work will be accepted without this
submission sheet. All assessed work for EU-coded modules must also be
submitted electronically to [email protected]
Surname
Year
First Name
_________________
_______
___________________________
Student Number
E-mail
______________
_________________
Module Code/ Module Name
__________________________________________________________________
Declaration
I have read and I understand the plagiarism provisions in the General Regulations
of the University Calendar for the current year, found at
http://www.tcd.ie/calendar.
I have also completed the Online Tutorial on avoiding plagiarism ‘Ready Steady
Write’, located at http://tcd-ie.libguides.com/plagiarism/ready-steady-write.
Signed
Date
_________________________________________
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